I am out of the kitchen and off to do some supermarket shopping in today’s video.
This should be fun!
How much do you buy at the enormous supermarkets where the vast majority of people buy most of their food today?
In this video, I will navigate you through the aisles of backside bulging processed foods to find the things that you can purchase that will enhance rather that harm your health.
I hope this video gets you thinking about where you can reduce your spending at the supermarket and better use that money elsewhere with small, local businesses and farms.
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I agree Nancy, cooking with my raw butter is something I can’t do! Raw butter has special status in my kitchen!
Sarah, rather than be covert, why not just tell them what you are doing. Good chance they may see it in a good light (at least at the health food store).
Hi Harold, that is a good idea. I know the manager of the store I shop at very well and he knows the stuff in his store that I don’t like and what I do like. I will ask his permission and see if can do it legit.
Sarah, why do you bypass the organic butter and go for the non-organic Kerrygold butter? I’m curious…
It tastes better and is much more yellow than the organic butter. I also refuse to buy anything from Organic Valley.
I’m a little confused! I thought Organic Valley was one of the “better” organic companies. I read they that operate as a co-op of farmers rather than one big industrial organic farm (such as Horizon Organics). Am I wrong here? When deciding between Organic Valley and Horizon, I always choose the Organic Valley for this reason. Someone set me straight here!
-Jocelyn
Jocelyn, if you read some of the archived articles about “raw” cheese and Organic Valley you will know why Sarah, and many others, don’t buy from them. Or you can just turn around the package and read ingredients. They stuff a lot of junk in a lot of their dairy products.
Thank you for the video. We also do perimeter shopping at our grocery store. We raise our beef and eggs and get organic chickens locally as well as raw milk. I purchase grassfed butter and staples like grains and nuts and seeds and dry fruits from our UNFI buying club, as well as organic produce. We are a family of 9 so it is cost prohibitive for us to buy some of the local and organic produce from the health food store. Our buying club orders once a month so I have to fill in with conventional produce, although we are working on having a green house next year to raise some winter produce.
I am curious to see what you DO buy. Would you make another video of a trip to the health food store or have a nice blog post about it? We are always working to improve our diets and overall health. Thanks for all you do. I have pointed lots of newbies I meet your way.
Maris Russell
Hi Maris, thank you so much for the referrals! I really appreciate it!
Word of mouth friend to friend is the best way to get this info out to the public, isn’t it?
I will see if I can take the camera to my healthfood store. I don’t want to get kicked out of there though! LOL I know the manager pretty well, so will ask permission first.
Sarah,
Where do you get things like paper towels, toilet paper and the like? I have found organic varities are terribly expensive. I am assuming you have a local health or whole foods store where you buy sugars, grains, etc……
Ha! I JUST got back from shopping at Walmart. I was desperate. They have a few things there that I buy. They have some organic lettuce, carrots, and a few other produce items. The bananas, of course. I bought some POM Wonderful pomegranate juice today. They have Dannon plain yogurt which is only “Grade A cultured milk” and nothing else, which I’ll buy every now and then if I can’t make it for some reason. They have whole milk cultured buttermilk (NOT low fat, yay!] so I’ll buy that sometimes. Most of what I buy is fresh produce, or non food items. I typically go to local health food stores first, though! Or, for meat, eggs, and milk, the farm.
I would love to see where you buy your things–
Would you do another video of where you buy your things– have you found 1 -2 farms for ait all?
Are you buying in bulk– or do you do it weekly?
PS: I really enjoy your video blogs!!!
Hi Denise, I may do one at the healthfood store, but can’t do any with my farmers as I need to protect them. There was an article in the paper about a small farm recently (I think it was in Colorado?) and the next week authorities were all over them shutting them down even though they were following law. Following the law doesn’t seem to even matter as the FDA now has the power to shut anyone they want down even if no one has gotten ill or any violations have occurred.
WOW!! I love shopping at Publix. I have a friend who sells her chicken eggs, but I haven’t gone to raw milk yet…kinda nervous about that. My grandmother scared me a bit with stories about people getting sick and going blind. Still need to research. But there is a place out near my friend who I get eggs from that sells raw milk. Definetly considering it.
Not sure where to get meats. So end up getting greenwise chicken from publix…occasionally buffalo, but it went from 7.50 a lb to 8.99 to 11.99 a lb (1 stinkin POUND!).
Meats are by far our most expensive investment. 🙁
HI SJ01, check out my Facebook page. I posted an article yesterday about how Queen Elizabeth drinks raw milk and had bottles of it delivered to Eton when Prince Harry and Prince William attended boarding school there. If it were that dangerous, do you think the Queen would be drinking it and insisting on it for her grandsons, one of which is 2nd in line for the throne? Heck no! She knows the truth.
LOL! I LOVE THIS VIDEO! I’ve very nearly gotten kicked out myself while TOO LOUDLY explaining to my husband why we can’t buy certain ‘crap’ in the grocery store, or being shocked by what was in another shopper’s cart! OOOPS!
We do a circle around the main parameters of the store….never venturing into the unacceptable zone….organic bananas, organic onions, toilet paper, laundry detergent, parchment paper, shampoo,…and we’re out of there! We barely need a cart!
Omgish that is hilarious! Go Lynda!
Very eye opening! I may make this one of my 2011 goals., shopping less as the box store for food. My husband, a wonderful man, found me eggs $2.00 a dozen, pastured about 1/2 mile from the house – I’ve been sitting on eggs all this time and didn’t know it!!!
That man deserves a steak dinner (grassfed of course) ! 🙂
I would LOVE to buy local produce, but you can’t find organic around here. I do most of my shopping at Earth Fare and our food co-op. Earth Fare is expensive and I try to get everything I can from the co-op, but sometimes we miss a month or two. Plus, I can’t order certain things in bulk because of the expiration dates. I buy no hormone no antibiotic meat from Horizon Foods and have it delivered to my freezer.
That was hilarious! Now you need to do a video about were you DO source your food from – specifically.
I think I’ll do a blog post soon about where all our food is coming from this winter.